Workmen's advocate., 1887-01-01
Yrire , Gents

God {! That is impertinent He is there- fore taken up and thrown into one of those unclean reCeptacles called aims houses, where his misery is less obtru- sive.
 And of the destruction accompa- nying:
 Elsewhere distinctions have been founded, not upon birth, but on wealth.
 "llow much doyou possess? So much. Take your seat at the social banquet: the table is spread for you. Thou who hast nothing, retire. Is there home or coun- try for the poor?
 "The rdbbte, as the common people are contemptuously called individually en- franchised, have generally been the prop erty of those who regulate tie relations between the members of society, the op- erations of industry, the conditions of labor, its price, and the division of it's fruits. What it has pleased them to or dain, they have named law; and the laws have been for the most part only measures of private interest, means of augmenting and perpetuating the dom nation and the abuse of the domination of the few over the many"
 On the clements ol true democracy he said to the wage workers:
 "You are the people: Know then what is meant by this term, the people.
 "There are men who, grooming under the burthens of the day, necessarily ex- posed to the sun, to the rain, to the wind, to all the vicissitudes of the seasons, cul- tivate the earth, deposit in it's bosom a portion of their strength and their life with the seed that is to fructify, and thus with the sweat of their brows obtain the food necessary for all.
 "These men are of the people.
 "Others explore the forest, the quarry, the mine, descending to immense depths into the bowels of the earth, that they may extract the materials indispensable to the trades, the arts. These, like the first, consume their life in hard labor for the procurement of those things which all need.
 ''Ihese also are of the people.
 "Others cast metals, fashion them, and give them the forms that adapt them to a thousand varied uses; others work in wood others, spinning wool, flax and silk, manufacture different stuffs; others provide i'll the same manner for the diff ferent wants arising directly from nature, or from social life.
 "These are of the people.
 "Many, amid continual perils. cross the seas, to transport from one country to another those things peculiar to each; ,,,nt tn,., under the tropical fires as amid polar ices, either to augment the common mass of subsistence, or to draw from the ocean mu!titudes of productions useful to man.
 "These also are of the people.
 "And who are they who take up arms for their country defend her. give to her their best years, their labor, and their blood? Who devote themselves for the security of others, that they may rest in tranquil enjoyment of their firesides? Who are they, if not the children of the people?
 "Some of them also, through thous- and obstacles, impelled and sustained by genius, develop and perfect the arts, letters, and the sciences, softening man. ners and civilizng nations; surrounding them with that trilscendent splendor which is called glory, and forming one of the most fruitful sources of the public prosperity.
 isremedy, is decidedly socialistic. Summing up the evils of society, he searches for the causes.
 "Whence comes evil in the material arln Ia hD nirn tot lna of some? No, but rather from the desti- tuition of others; from the fact that by virtue of laws made by the rich for the exclusive benefit of the rich, they almost exclusively profit by the labor of the poor, thus rendered poorer and poorer. What then is to be doneY We must se- cure to labor an equitable portion of its products; not by despoiling him who already possesses, but by enabling the destitute to acquire and enjoy by the legitimate use of their physical and in- teIlectual powers.
 "Now, how shall this be accomplished? /? By two means: by the abolition of the laws of privilege and monopoly; and by the diffusion of capital, which renders the instruments of labor accessible to all.
 "Enfranchised labor, master of itself, will become master of the world; for labor is the action of Humanity, accom- plishing the work which the Creator has given it in charge.
 "Working men, take courage then; be not wanting to yourselves, and God will not be wanting to you. Each of your efforts will produce its fruit, will be at- tended by by an amelioration of your condition, whence other and greater ameiorations will spring, and from these yet others, until the time when the earth, refreshed and regenerated, shall be like field whose harvest peacefully gathered and shared by family of brothers"